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The essence of racism is to punish one person for something another member of the same race did. It's all racism, and to condone it in any case is racist. Each person should be judged as an individual based on his own actions, not on the actions of his race as a whole.
I agree with this completely. I also agree that black people are sometimes racist toward whites and I may even agree with you on specific examples.
What you are completely wrong about is the experience of our society as a whole.
Our society has improved greatly since the days of lynchings and segregtion... and the fact that Obama can be president is a very good sign of this.
To claim that the racism now experienced by Black and Hispanic kids, in general is the same as racism experienced by White kids, is completely false. There are still stereotypes which play out in real life that I have seen hurt real kids I care about.
Of course, the most harmful bigotry now is aimed at Middle Eastern and Arabic people. In some ways it seems like for all the improvements with some groups, we are now much worse in others.
Maybe the amount of racial bigotry doesn't really change-- except for every so often we find new targets.